Drawer menus are very popular since they allow you to take advantage of more screen real estate when building your app. The main application menu is hidden by default, and invoked by tapping on a menu item or swiping left/right. This type of UI can be seen in many popular mobile applications, including Facebook, Youtube and Gmail.
Drawer Navigation Key Features:
Main app menu is hidden by…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Welcome to The C++ Mobile Day webinar! Right now I’m listening to David I explaining basics of building native mobile apps for Android and iOS from the same C++ codebase with C++Builder XE6. In less than three hours there will be my, prerecorded…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Everybody loves colours. Great apps should use colours in clever and original ways. I have been recently spending a lot of time using Delphi XE5 for designing screens for mobile apps and must admit that I really like the way how iOS 7 is using colours and gradients. There is a lot of interesting information about iOS user interface design best practices at “iOS 7 Design…
Delphi XE5 - deploying and accessing local files on iOS and Android
November 23, 2013
Larry in Canada recently sent me an email asking a Delphi XE5 mobile multi-device question: “How do you include files and/or folders containing files with a Delphi Android application APK file?” I told him I would create a simple example and explain how to deploy…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Last month Sarina DuPont blogged about loading custom FireMonkey styles on a mobile device at runtime (“How to load custom styles at runtime“). That’s a very interesting approach to compile a custom style as a resource into the mobile…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
During my CodeRage 8 “Secure DataSnap Development” session I’m demonstrating different levels of security in DataSnap architecture.
Communication Protocol: DataSnap supports three different communication protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS. Choosing the HTTPS protocol that is implemented using SSL (“Secure Sockets Layer”) adds encryption to the communication…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
The lifecycle of a mobile app is more complex and different from a desktop app. On a mobile device an application runs either in the foreground or in the background. When a phone calls arrive or when user opens another app, our app is going to…
Author: Vsevolod L1433
You’re asking about app size? Not a news. Since Delphi 1 people’re asking “why Windows calculator is 33 kb, while Delphi version of the same exe is 300 kb”? Then and now it’s a question not about technology. Are you…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
It seems that it is my very first post in the New Year 2013, so I wish You all the best and great time writing all kinds of programs. I’m sure it is going to be a great year for Delphi and Marco is predicting it as well, especially that next month Delphi is going to become adult!
Two years ago I have put together a serie of Delphi DataSnap tutorials called “Delphi…
